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Note: Adjust the estimated costs according to your manuscript’s word count. I have taken an editing estimate per word for beta reading, copyediting, and proofreading.

Other estimates: Average of freelancers’ prices on Upwork. Adjust as you see fit.

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You can change the chart view by clicking on the chart icon; click “edit view”, and then have a play with the data settings.

The current settings are: what to show (status option), each slice represents (cost:sum), sort by (sum high to low).

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Index

Resources

Keep track of all the self-publishing steps you plan on taking, their costs, and notes.

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This table was created with a 70,000-word manuscript in mind. You can easily adjust the estimates/actual costs to match your manuscript and your self-publishing journey.

You can add or delete rows by clicking on the “dice” looking button that pops up when you hover over the rows in the table below.

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Self-Publishing Cost Tracker

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Ready2Publish offers a Draft2Novel monthly payment plan to spread the costs of various self-publishing services to make professional editing more affordable.

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